Jan Øberg
 Jan Øberg    (academic) | |
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| Born | January 13, 1951 |
| Nationality | Danish, Swedish |
| Member of | American Herald Tribune, Working Group on Syria Propaganda and Media |
Danish/Swedish peace researcher | |
Jan Øberg (also spelled Öberg and Oberg) is a Swedish/Danish academic and peace researcher. He is the former director of Lund University Peace Research Institute (LUPRI) and former general secretary of the Danish Peace Academy.[1]
“There is a lid on the western mainstream media in a way it has NEVER been before… 'Today there is no "crack in the wall"…' 10% is empirically true, 20% is fake - narratives, 70%, and it is the most important part, is omitted news.”
Jan Oberg (17 August 2021) [2]
Books and articles
His main books are “Energy for a Better Society” (in Danish), “Myth About Our Security” (in Danish), “To Develop Security and Secure Development”, “Winning Peace” (co-author), and in 2004, he published “Predictable Fiasco. The Conflict with Iraq and Denmark as an Occupying Power” (in Danish). In 2005 he contributed to a Danish textbook on psychology with a chapter on peace and conflict psychology and to another book on evil.
In 2006 he was a co-editor of “Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict”, the peace research flagship edited by Lester Kurtz. His main project as of 2013 is “Yugoslavia – What Should Have Been Done?” together with Johan Galtung and Hakan Wiberg.
He has been a columnist in Nordic newspapers, occasional contributor to the cultural page of Helsingborg Dagblad in Sweden and a bi-weekly columnist for the Danish daily Dato. He wrote reviews and commentaries for the Danish liberal daily, Politiken, 1974-94.
“There are lots of ways of securing and making peace in the world, but we're not supposed to discuss them. The military-industrial-media-academic-complex prevents us from doing that. You can't do that as a state financed institute. You could look at SIPRI, they don't do peace research anymore if they ever did, they do security studies, peace has been dropped. Most of the peace research institutes in Scandinavia don't do peace research, defined as reducing violence.”
Jan Øberg (November 2024) [3]
